Mayor Nanny’s Bounty On Butts
Cigarette butts, that is. Not content with banning smoking in restaurants, public parks and open spaces, along with serving up a whole menu of other bans that includes outlawing the sale of super-sized sodas, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg is at again, this time looking to effectively snuff smoking in private residences. Yes, your home. This from the UK’s DailyMail:
Anti-smoking police are set to patrol New York neighbourhoods and stop people smoking in their own homes, secret new documents reveal.
Community groups will be sent out to convince landlords and tenants across the city to turn their private buildings into smoke-free zones, according to the documents seen by the New York Post.
The community groups would ‘work with property managers, tenants, and others on adoption of voluntary smoke-free policies’, the document says.
In return for their work, each community group will collect a $10,000 bounty — paid for out of a Centers for Disease Control grant.
The news comes one year after the city banned smoking in parks and beaches, despite promises by Mayor Bloomberg that there were no plans to extend a ban to apartment buildings.
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Critics called the plan an affront to personal freedom and suspect that it has long been in the pipeline and waited for the public to get used to the public smoking ban before introducing one in homes.
City politicians denied there was any such plan.
Bloomberg spokesperson Samantha Levine said: ‘The city is not banning smoking in private residences; as part of this federal grant, organizations can apply to fund projects that, among other things, educate the community on voluntary smoke-free housing policies.’
Uh-huh, alrighty then; no creeping progressive agenda here. Move along, citizen.
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